Apropos of nowt, thought I’d lob up this spare interview with Turbine’s Executive Producer Jeffrey Steefel about Lord of the Rings Online, conducted late last year. ‘T’ain’t nothing fancy, and is only a partial transcript (can’t find the original recording, annoyingly), originally intended for an ‘Introduction to LOTRO’ kinda feature in a publication that didn’t eventually happen. Games journalism is a fool’s errand, kids.
Nonetheless, there’s some hopefully interesting comments about the thinking behind the game, its apparent blatant WoWiness and the casual/hardcore split.
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